Last October, I wrote about The Atlas of Digital Damages on Flickr. The idea was that it would be instructive to showcase digital content that suffered from problems roughly equivalent to physical content that was deteriorating due to mistakes or neglect.
Since I last wrote about it, the atlas has acquired more examples reflecting all kinds of problems, from corrupted bit streams, to programs that didn’t work correctly, to media failure. Some examples are below. If you have any of your own, please add them to the site!
PDF with missing font, by prwheatley, on Flickr
Untitled and !!@?$*FATAL*DISK*ERROR!!@#?$*!!@#?$, both by Daniel Rehn, on Flickr
Bad XML, by wlef70, and Image Rendering Error, by prwheatley, on Flickr
Google error, that’s all we know, by wlef70, on Flickr